What would Lincoln do?

150 years ago today, President Lincoln was celebrating his last birthday in the White House.  The war was still raging, the skies were likel...

Much time has passed since I last posted on this blog.  I've been thinking about A. Lincoln often in the past week.  I can't help bu...

On this day in 1861, President Lincoln gave his annual message to Congress. December 3, 1861 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Repr...

On this day in 1861, London Times reporter William Russell wrote this account in his diary after an encounter with President Abraham Linco...

On this day in 1818, Abraham Lincoln's beloved mother Sarah Hanks died of the milk sickness in Spencer County Indiana (what was then the...